Jones, Pineau, Shaw, Thomas impress as Jrs. begin spring training
April 13, 2022
By Adam Morissette
Baseball Canada
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – The Junior National Team program is currently holding a spring training camp at Ballpark of the Palm Beaches, the spring training home of the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals.
The squad is holding daily workouts and playing a 12-game schedule, including six games against prospect squads from the Astros’ and Nationals’ organizations'
Canada Red 8, Canada Grey 1 … Box score
Reece Usselman (Langley, BC) tossed three hitless innings and Sam Shaw (Victoria, BC) put an exclamation point on for his side with a late home run to lead Canada Red to an 8-1 win over Canada Grey on Day 1 of Junior National Team spring training.
Usselman was on the mound for one run -- unearned -- and struck out four batters on 39 pitches as Canada Red built a 4-1 lead after three innings.
Jack Pineau (Thunder Bay, Ont.) and Kaleb Thomas (Hagersville, Ont.) both tossed three scoreless allowing two hits with Pineau fanning one batter while Thomas recorded five strikeouts.
Cameron Chee-Aloy (Toronto, Ont.), Joshua Jones (Blainville, Que.) and Shaw had two hits each as Canada Red recorded 10 hits while Ty Hamilton (Orleans, Ont.) had two hits including a double for Canada Grey.